The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-03-04

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| holding unused city lots, unused mines
unused agricultural lands to drop them; t.
| find somebody who would take them of
their hands--take them as a gift if they
could not get anybody to pay them fol
them. Applause There is where you would
open the opportunities for the employment
Of labor. Dog-in-the- manger choked off
then labor would be free to employ itself
do not mean to say that every man would
60 and open mine, or cultivate farm,
or build himself house: but enough
would to relieve the labor market; for
every man who did that would not only be
taking himself out of the ranks of Compel
itors for the wages Of an employer but lie
would be creating demand for the labor
of others. (Applause.)
And is this not consistent with Justice ,
am native Of Philadelphia, and my
parents before me. | don't know that
there is any especial advantage in being a
native of Philadelphia Haughter.)
have got no particular rights in PhiIadeI-
phia because am native ofPhiladelphia.
If came here and wanted to live in Phila
delphia | would have to buy somebody's
permission to live here. IF | came here
and wanted to build myself house,
might find plenty of vacant lots around the
outskirts. could not put myself up a
house from being native of Philadelphia:
Qaughter) and yet have got just as much
right in Philadelphia as yoH natives of
Philadelphia who have lived here all your
lives. (Appause.) You are not whit
better of than am: that is to say. You
who, like me, own no land, though you
have lived here all your lives, and your
fathers have lived here before you from the
time William Penn came, yon have to buy
permission to live in Philadelphia by pay
ments every week or every month or every
quarter. You have got no rights at all in
Philadelphia, save as you buy them from
the owners Of Philadelphia. (Applause.)
And this is our country, onr native coun-
try. Gaugbter).
"oureountry lis of1hee. sweet land fliberty.'
daughter and applause). Our country?
our country? Why the most of us, we
have to pay somebody for the privilege of
living in oCr country and working in our
country. (Laughter). Here is a boy born
in the city of Philadelphia and goes to the
public schools of Philadelphia and learns
to be patriotic and to be told it is his duty,
if needs be, to give his life for his country.
lis sweet for our country TO die
and all that sort of thing How much of
that country belongs to him? Haughter)
When was boy living in Philadelphia
/ lived in Southwark-w.e used to go down
two or three squares and catch grasshop-
pers and such things, Gaughter), at
place we called a common. 1t is all
built up now, the city extending away be-
yond it. 1t belonged then ,--they used to
say it belonged to Queen Isabella of Spain
Oaughter.) If she is living yet she has
got more right in Philadelphia than have,
or any OF you common Philadelphia work
ingmen, (loud laughter), and she must
have made great deal of money by that
property going UP; and it she still holds it,
no doubt she draws very large income
from it. All this was made, how? In
come? What does that mean? 1t means
that the proceeds of your labor, what you
of Philadelphia produce is
shipped over there, proDably to England
and sold, and Queen Isabella of Spain, liv-
ing in Paris or Madrid, enjoys it and uses
it. The people who live there have to
work for her That part of the world is
not their country-it is hers. (Laughter).
And it is the same way all over this
Why, look at the great es-
tates of hundreds of thousands of acres
which the lords, and marqnises and dukes
of the old world own in America, Talk
about Irish landlordism! (Applause). Why
here is Mr.. Scully, of Tipperary, one oil the
worst rack landlords. (ETissingl. Oh,
don't hiss him, he is the lord and master
of great many American citizens to-day,
(sensation), and some cover at him and
as the Irish would say, she makes them
take off their hats when they come into his
presence. (Cries of .'Oh. oh,'') Talk
about Irish landlordisin! Talk about
liberty! Our Republieanisml What mat
tiers to any man the form of government
What difference does it make To him
whether he lives under a Republic or
whether he lives under Gar, as compar-
ed with his ability 10 stand up and look
the whole world in the face com pared
with his ability to make an independent
and easy living? {Applause). Call men
free-.nen when they have to beg and stint
and strain to get a living for themselves
and those whom nature has made DEEPEN
dent on them, and you only mock them.
You cannot. CANNOT, CANNOT, base a
free Republic upon private property in
land. (Applause). Freedom will not be
half served. Either we must carry ont in
spirit and in truth that declaration laid
down here over a century ago, or this Re-
public is doomed. cloud applause. THAT
all men are created equal; that they are en-
lowed by their Creator with certain ina
lienable rights, among which are the right
to life liberty and the pursuit of happl-
ness What does that mean? II means
great deal. Year after year, every Fourth
of j My, that Declaration was read in In
dependence Square, and read in every city
and village and hamlet throughout the
land, and all the time slavery in existence
They blotted out-as you who have seen
the draft of the Declaration of Indepen-